Off the Beaten Path

Savannah Botanical Gardens

I love playing my harp here!

Photo courtesy of the Savannah Area Council of Garden Clubs, Inc.

Ships of the Sea Museum

They've opened the new North Garden now and it is SPECTACULAR!

Not sure who took this picture in 2011 but thank you to the bride for sending me a copy.   

Bonaventure Cemetery

Good place for Steampunk weddings or just to sit and contemplate......

Wormsloe Ruins 

Savannah Railroad Roundhouse

Great wedding or event venue.  Love playing here!

Bonna Bella Marina

I take family to Bonna Bella whenever they're in town, 

but never thought of it as a wedding venue till I saw 

Greg Ceo's pictures of a wedding held here recently. 

   I almost forgot the Fragrant Garden in Forsyth Park!  

The wedding I played for at the Fragrant Garden was quiet, intimate and perfect!

Love & the Moon

Moondance

Written/composed byVan Morrison

Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance 

With the stars up above in your eyes 

A fantabulous night to make romance 

Neath the cover of October skies 

And all the leaves on the trees are falling 

To the sound of the breezes that blow 

And I'm trying to please to the calling 

Of your heart-strings that play soft and low 

And all the nights magic seems to whisper and hush 

And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush 

Chorus: 

Can I just have one a more moondance with you, my love 

Can I just make some more romance with a-you, my love

Blue Moon

Written/composed by Richard Rogers/Lorenz Hart

Blue Moon
You saw me standing alone

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own

Blue Moon

You know just what I was there for

You heard me saying a prayer for

Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me

The only one my arms will hold

I heard somebody whisper please adore me

And when I looked to the Moon it turned to gold

Blue Moon

Now I'm no longer alone

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own

Fly Me to the Moon

Songwriters: HEWSON, PAUL DAVID / EVANS, DAVE / CLAYTON, ADAM /

 MULLEN, LARRY / CORDES, ATTRELL STEPHEN JR

Fly me to the moon, 

And let me play among the stars. 

Let me see what spring is like, 

On jupiter and mars. 

In other words, hold my hand, 

In other words, darling kiss me. 

Fill my heart with song, 

And let me sing forever more, 

You are all I long for, 

All I worship and adore, 

In other words, please be true, 

In other words, I love you.

Moonlight Serenade

Songwriters: PARISH, MITCHELL/MILLER, GLENN

I stand at your gate and the song that I sing is of moonlight. 

I stand and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night. 

The roses are sighing a Moonlight Serenade. 

The stars are aglow and tonight how their light sets me dreaming. 

My love, do you know that your eyes are like stars brightly beaming? 

I bring you and sing you a Moonlight Serenade. 

Let us stray till break of day 

In love's valley of dreams. 

Just you and I, a summer sky, 

A heavenly breeze kissing the trees. 

So don't let me wait, come to me tenderly in the June night. 

I stand at your gate and I sing you a song in the moonlight, 

A love song, my darling, a Moonlight Serenade

Fun Recessional Music

How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You

Songwriters: Holland, Brian/Dozier, Lamont Herbert/Holland, Edward, Jr.

How sweet it is to be loved by you

How sweet it is to be loved by you

I needed the shelter of someone's arms and there you were 

I needed someone to understand my ups and downs and there you were 

With sweet love and devotion 

Deeply touching my emotion 

I want to stop and thank you baby 

I just want to stop and thank you baby 

How sweet it is to be loved by you 

How sweet it is to be loved by you 

I close my eyes at night 

Wondering where would I be without you in my life 

Everything I did was just a bore 

Everywhere I went it seems I'd been there before 

But you brighten up for me all of my days 

With a love so sweet in so many ways 

I want to stop and thank you baby 

I just want to stop and thank you baby 

How sweet it is to be loved by you 

How sweet it is to be loved by you 

You were better for me than I was for myself 

For me, there's you and there ain't nobody else 

I want to stop and thank you baby 

I just want to stop and thank you baby 

How sweet it is to be loved by you 

How sweet it is to be loved by you

In the Mood

Words by Andy Razaf, Music by Joe Garland

Who's the lovin' lady with the beautiful eyes

What a pair o' lips, I'd like to try 'em for size

I'll just tell her, "Baby, won't you swing it with me"

Hope she tells me maybe, what a wing it will be

So, I said politely "Darlin' may I intrude"

She said "Don't keep me waitin' when I'm in the mood"

First I held her lightly and we started to dance

Then I held her tightly what a dreamy romance

And I said "Hey, baby, it's a quarter to three

There's a mess of moonlight, won't-cha share it with me"

"Well" she answered "Baby, don't-cha know that it's rude

To keep my two lips waitin' when they're in the mood"

In the mood, that's what she told me

In the mood, and when she told me

In the mood, my heart was skippin'

It didn't take me long to say "I'm in the mood now"

In the mood for all her kissin'

In the mood her crazy lovin'

In the mood what I was missin'

It didn't take me long to say "I'm in the mood now"

So, I said politely "Darlin' may I intrude"

She said "Don't keep me waitin' when I'm in the mood"

"Well" she answered "Baby, don't-cha know that it's rude

To keep my two lips waitin' when they're in the mood"

Happy New Year

Beautiful morning on Tybee Island.  Happy New Year!